Topic: Artillery

Pinaka Rocket System Flight Tests Successful

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) recently completed successful flight tests of the guided Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL), which took place on November 14, 2024. The...

November 15, 2024    Defence Current Affairs

Women Officers in Regiment of Artillery

In a historic move, the Indian Army is set to commission its first lot of women officers in the artillery regiments later this month. The Officers’ Training Academy...

April 8, 2023    Defence Current Affairs

Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System – Update (March, 2023)

The Indian Army has proposed the acquisition of an indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) to fill critical capability gaps in high-altitude regions. The proposal is expected...

March 8, 2023    Defence Current Affairs

Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System

The user trials of indigenously built Advanced Towed Artillery Gun system (ATAGS) is to be resumed by December 2020. The trials of ATAGS were paused in September 2020...

December 15, 2020

55th Raising Day of Border Security Force(BSF)

The Border Security Force (BSF) is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces of India, was formed on 1st December 1965 and, is termed as the First...

December 2, 2019

Indian Army conducts rare exercise Chang Thang Prahar in Eastern Laddakh

The Indian Army conducted a massive rare exercise named ‘Chang Thang Prahar’ at a high altitude area in Eastern Laddakh  bordering China for testing and improving its war-fighting...

September 21, 2019

Indian Army conducts ‘Exercise Topchi 2019’

Indian Army has recently demonstrated its artillery firepower by using ultra light Howitzers and indigenous Swathi weapon-locating radar at the annual ‘Exercise Topchi 2019’ at the vast firing...

February 13, 2019

India’s first private-sector Howitzer gun-manufacturing plant comes up in Surat

On 19th January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India’first Armoured Systems Complex (ASC) built by a private company – Larsen & Toubro (L&T) – at Hazira in...

January 22, 2019

The new artillery guns and equipment including K9 Vajra, M777 howitzers, have recently inducted into Indian Army

The new artillery guns and equipment, including K9 Vajra, M777 howitzers, have recently inducted into the Indian Army at the Deolali artillery centre in Nashik district of Maharashtra....

November 12, 2018

Controversy on ultra-light howitzers acquisition through FMS

In 2010, the Government of India had authorised an outright purchase of 145 ultra-light howitzers from the US. The ultra-light howitzers are for the mountain artillery divisions of...

November 4, 2011